Federal News Radio has learned that the federal government will be closed on Wed., Feb. 10, 2010. OPM Director John Berry talked earlier this week about how his makes his decision and about why he thinks teleworking is more important than ever.

OPM is hoping to launch the Veterans Hiring Initiative next week. Director Berry also planning to kick-off an initiative to pair SESers with universities to bring on new workers. Berry says a formal proposal for long-term changes to civil service could be ready by next summer.

Nearly 300,000 jobs in the next three years. That's the projection by federal agencies of the number of new mission-critical jobs they hope to fill by 2012. But what do you need to do to go "Where the Jobs Are?" The Partnership for Public Service asked Fed CHCOs to lay out a roadmap.

With the clock ticking toward the Defense Business Board's final report on the National Security Personnel System, have attitudes changed among the federal labor unions who have been vehemently against it? Conversations with two union officials suggest the answer is "no".